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title: Getting started
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# Getting started  <TierLabel tiers="Enterprise" />
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This guide shows you the basics steps to start using Explorer.

## Pre-requisites

Before using Explorer, please ensure that:

- You have Weave Gitops Enterprise [v0.21.2](../../releases)
- You have deployed an application.

## Setup

Explorer is enabled via configuration through the feature flag  `enableExplorer` that you could
configure in your Weave Gitops Enterprise HelmRelease values:


```yaml
---
apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2beta1
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
  name: weave-gitops-enterprise
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  # ... other spec components
  values:
    enableExplorer: true
```

For a complete overview on the configuration you could see [configuration](./configuration.mdx).

## Explorer UI

Login to Weave Gitops and Explorer will be shown in the navigation menu `Explorer`.

Explorer UI looks as follows:

![explorer](imgs/explorer-ui.png)

It has two main components:

- A search dialog with filter to querying the platform resources
- A table with the filtered resources.

For a more detailed view on the UI you could see [querying](./querying.mdx).

## Discovering Applications

For this example we are using the application `podinfo` but you could use any other app that suits your scenario.

There are two main ways to discover data:

- Querying via the search dialog.
- Filtering via the pre-built filter list.

### Querying

Just typing `podinfo` in the search dialog returns the applications that matches the term

![podinfo app found](imgs/getting-started-querying-app.png)

For more info on how querying works to query and advanced queries see [querying](./querying.mdx).

### Filtering

A set of queries are set as filters. For example, just select the filter `Failed` to get all the apps that are failing in
a moment in time.

![failed apps](imgs/getting-started-failed.png)

## Next Steps
Once you have an initial experience using explorer, you could

- Deep dive in [querying](./querying.mdx) to see how it works and advanced queries.
- See [configuration](./configuration.mdx) for the options that you could configure in explorer.